Snoozy has-been Fred Thompson was supposed to cut an endorsement vid for his pal Newt Gingrich. But as Fred did so often during his short-lived campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, he plopped down in his recliner with a glass of scotch and was soon swept away by the sandman.
The Gingrich people called about the delay, but no matter how hard trophy spouse Jeri Thompson shoved the old fart, shouted in his face or shook him by the lapels of his green, crushed-velvet smoking jacket, Fred snored on. This is what poor Jeri spliced together to get the Gingrich campaign off her back:
The Gingrich people didn’t even notice the difference! Well, not really. But Fred has an interesting “Mirror Universe” Spock vibe in this Hannity clip.
[X-POSTED at Rumproast]
r€nato
hahaha
are there more than 3 people who cared that the 2008 proto-Trump object of fickle GOP infatuation endorsed Gingrich?
EconWatcher
Newt Gingrich has a friend?
Hal
Has Mitch Daniels been drafted yet? I’m guessing he’ll make the short list of possible VPs now, but damn, I just can’t get over that comb over.
WereBear
I say we drop Daniels & Trump into a pit… and may the best combover win!
JPL
Who wants a free Newt Gingrich?
jibeaux
Call for a free DVD?
Word to the wise, might want to make that free VHS cassette.
Amir Khalid
@JPL:
If you have to take Noot off somebody’s hands, you should demand at least $100,000 plus expenses for his care & feeding.
dmsilev
@JPL: Has it been spayed and is it toilet trained?
scav
@dmsilev: We know that it bites.
Comrade Javamanphil
I had no idea the Matlock vote was in play.
Warren Terra
Sneer at the Matlock vote all you want, but remember they are contesting Florida, which is home to no small number of superannuated shut-ins who watch a lot of reruns and believe a lot of what they watch.
Raven
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert noted, for instance, that few Republicans received copies of the speech. “Most presidents are a little more bipartisan,” Gohmert said of the slight, before arguing that Obama’s strategy “of working from ignorance” in the Afghanistan war is “no way to go through life, son.”
MattF
Well, at least it’s not a V***gra commercial.
arguingwithsignposts
@Raven: Gohmert, who’s been a member of the house under two presidents – Bush and Obama. What a stupid ass he is.
Kirbster
Fred Thompson, as Arthur Branch, was always my least favorite DA on “Law & Order”, as he was always lecturing his underlings and bloviating about how the Supreme Court got this or that decision wrong. In other words, he was just playing Fred Thompson. I much preferred Steven Hill as Adam Schiff, the world-weary realist who had one eye on his re-election and the other eye on avoiding messy, complicated trials if a plea deal was possible.
Mike
At least Newt’s got a guy who can help him get his scooter at absolutely no cost to him (just the taxpayers–Medicare foots the bill). Both ironic and fitting, really.
Raven
@arguingwithsignposts: Yea, he couldn’t remember how to say boy!
Comrade Javamanphil
@Kirbster:
The episode where his wife dies and the little whimper he made at that moment was one of the most heartbreaking in TV history. He was a very under appreciated character on that show.
FlipYrWhig
@Raven: Gohmert = Foghorn Leghorn
Villago Delenda Est
@FlipYrWhig:
“I say, I’m a joke, son!”
Violet
The other day in the car I decided to tune into wingnut radio to see what they were saying. Hannity had Fred Thompson on as a guest. Hannity gamely laughed at Fred’s “jokes” and tried to keep the conversation moving forward, but even he couldn’t make sense of Fred’s rambling monotone.
Hannity asked Fred if he’d consider coming back to do a radio show and Fred said, “No, because when you do a radio show you have to be there at the same time every day. That just didn’t fit with my schedule.” Even Hannity struggled to spin that one. I guess Fred has never had to show up day after day at the same time for a job like most people.
Nylund
Is it just me or with every passing year does Kelsey Grammer look more and more like Fred Thompson? Given Kelsey’s penchant for embracing the GOP crazy, I foresee a time in the future when the GOP trots out Kelsey as their latest hope to find an actor become the next St. Ronnie.
Betty Cracker
@Nylund: I’d never noticed that before, but you’re right.
geg6
@Nylund:
Oh, FSM please, don’t do this to me! Jeebus, all I need is to again be forced live through another GOPer b-list actor presidency. Fuck me sideways.
maya
@Nylund:
That’s it! That’s the guy who should play RR on the Twentieth Century FOX production of the greatest war movie never told – The Battle of Granada. Fuchen Hollywood librul bias.
piratedan
@Villago Delenda Est: the boy has a mind like a steel trap, once it’s closed nothin gets in, do you understand what I’m saying to ya son?
Egypt Steve
A man of integrity in both universes — NOT!
cxs
@Kirbster: Oh my God, loved Schiff for the very same reason!
Death Panel Truck
So Noot got a recommend from the old, lazy farting hound dog on the porch. The guy who ran for president at the insistence of his trophy wife, and quit when it got too gol-durned time-consumin’.
Comrade Carter
Thinking about the “Matlock” vote…
If their anything like Mr. Matlock, who is essentially Andy Griffith, they’re Democrats to the end.